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JFV Biography

 

Jeff Vézina describes himself as an explorer of the unconscious. He scans the manifestations of the collective unconscious as seen through cinema, fashions, technological tools, the Internet, his many travels and his private practice. His research themes are relational synchronicity, cinema and psychology, emotional intelligence and the influence of new technologies on human beings.

 

In 1996 he obtained his masters degree in clinical psychology from Laval University of Québec, and wrote an essay on the links between chaos theory and Jung.

 

In 1997, he participated in Peter Wintonick’s documentary The QuébeCanada Complex for Necessary Illusions Productions, which takes a humorous and psychoanalytic look at the question of Quebec identity.

 

In 1998 and 1999, he was the producer and host of the radio show Projection for CKRL-FM in Quebec City, which examined the relationship between psychology and the cinema. Vézina was also president of the Jungian Society of Quebec for seven years

 

In 2001 he published the French version (Les Hasards Nécessaires) of the book you are about to read. This book quickly became a important reference and sold over 50,000 copies in French and has been translated into Italian and Spanish..

 

In 2004 he published Se réaliser dans un mondes d’images: à la recherché de son originalité in which he develops a unique approach in which we can increase self- knowledge through the films that have marked our lives.

 

In 2005, he created a psychology and film column for the scientific journal Cerveau and psyche, a neuroscience journal published throughout the French-speaking world.

 

In 2008, he published an innovative and imaginative book about love in which he created a map showing the different regions of a relationship. The book L’Aventure amoureuse: de l’Amour Naissant à l’Amour Durable asks the question: What if love is not something but somewhere? He proposes a unique way to find our way when we fall “in love”.

 

Jeff Vézina is also a musician and a composer of electronic music. He composed the digital CD Projections and in 2002 completed the soundtrack for the exhibit of the city of Xi’an at Quebec’s Museum of Civilization.